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- CHAPTEROverspending in Perspective
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- CHAPTERROTOITI – A sign of Assertion
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- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: Forest & Bird representatives had been assured that no logging would take place on the Rotoiti block before a ...
- ILLUSTRATIONTop: Up to 10 pair of kokako are dependent on the Rotoiti block, using it and other small forest areas in the vicinit...
- ILLUSTRATIONOpposite: A vigil was set up outside the Rotoiti block. Fortunately, and to Tasman's credit, the block was granted a ...
- CHAPTERCHLOROFLUOROCARBONS a threat to the ozone layer
- ILLUSTRATIONFigure 4: Free chlorine atoms, or radicals, sink down into the ozone layer and attack the ozone (O3) to form chlorine...
- ILLUSTRATIONFigure 3: This picture of the ozone over the Southern Hemisphere was based on readings from Nimbus 7 on 7 October 198...
- ILLUSTRATIONFigure 1: Projected contribution of "greenhouse gases" to global climatic warming by the year 2030. Note the substant...
- CHAPTERKUKU
- CHAPTERBIRDS AND PLANTS
- ILLUSTRATIONTop left: What future is there for such trees as tawa, karaka and miro, which today depend almost solely on kereru to...
- ILLUSTRATIONTop right: Nikau fruits are mainly eaten by kereru, although their woody seeds are sometimes used as gizzard stones b...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe beautiful flowers of kotukutuku (Fuchsia) (Bottom left,
- ILLUSTRATIONand kowhai (Bottom right) provide nectar for bird pollinators such as bellbird and tui. Photo: B. W. Thomas
- CHAPTERKereru Hunting
- CHAPTERCONSERVATION UPDATE
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- CHAPTERKiwi Club off to flying start
- CHAPTERPublic to have their say
- CHAPTERContorta Pine project
- CHAPTERHands off South Westland
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- CHAPTERBooks Received
- CHAPTERKIWICIDE IN WAITANGI Recollections of a nightmare
- ILLUSTRATIONTop: A North Island brown kiwi in Waitangi Forest. Kiwi have been counted in high numbers in these pine forests, and ...
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove: The first dead kiwi found was the biggest female ever caught in Waitangi Forest. Inspection of the carcase rev...
- ILLUSTRATIONGerda was banded in 1981 by Rogan Colbourne and R Kleinpaste. She and her mate, Pieter, were found at the same locati...
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft: Barbara Hudde radio tracking kiwi. In this case the signal was unbelievably coming directly from underneath. Th...
- ILLUSTRATIONShe is found lying head down on a steep hill after her fatal encounter with the rogue dog (bottom right). All photos ...
- CHAPTERNEW ZEALAND LIZARDS The neglected animals
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe clearance and drainage of part of the Kaimaumau Swamp north of Kaitaia has destroyed much valuable habitat for th...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe striped skink (Leiolopisma striatum) is possibly the most endangered New Zealand lizard, with scattered sightings...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Auckland green gecko (Naultinus elegans elegans), although still relatively common, is declining in number mainly...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe harlequin gecko (Hoplodactylus rakiurae), a strikingly marked inhabitant of the Southern Tin Ranges on Stewart Is...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe harlequin gecko (Hoplodactylus rakiurae), a strikingly marked inhabitant of the Southern Tin Ranges on Stewart Is...
- ILLUSTRATIONPart of a New Zealand Herpetological Society salvage site on Auckland's North Shore. This prime area, which contains ...
- ILLUSTRATIONTop: The Great Barrier skink (Leiolopisma homalonotum), a 300mm lizard only found on Great Barrier Island where it is...
- ILLUSTRATIONTop right: The localised distribution in a populated area of the Taranaki goldstripe gecko (Hoplodactylus chrysosiret...
- ILLUSTRATIONRight: A very distinctive nocturnal lizard, the robust skink (Cyclodina alani) has a limited distribution on a handfu...
- ILLUSTRATIONAttempts by the Department of Conservation to strengthen the vulnerable position of Whitaker's skink have taken the i...
- CHAPTERMIRANDA Learning about our coastal heritage
- ILLUSTRATIONThe unmistakeable looking eastern bar-tailed godwit, with their strong and slender bills, probe deep into mudflats fo...
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe wrybill is one of the principal waders in the Firth of Thames. About half its population (approximately 2500) fly...
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- ILLUSTRATIONAnother Arctic migrant is the turnstone which can be seen from September on feeding busily on shellfish in lagoons an...
- ILLUSTRATIONAt most about 150 curlew sandpipers migrate to New Zealand, although large numbers are found in Australia. There is a...
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- CHAPTERFOREST AND BIRD EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT
- CHAPTERNATIONAL PARKS NATIONAL TREASURES
- ILLUSTRATIONTe Heuheu Tukino IV, paramount chief of the Tuwharetoa who gifted Tongariro as a national park. Photo: Burton Bros
- ILLUSTRATIONRock formations, Abel Tasman National Park. Photo: Tony Lilleby
- ILLUSTRATIONFox River, Paparoa National Park. Photo: Bob Burton
- ILLUSTRATIONAciphylla sp, Mt Aspiring National Park
- ILLUSTRATIONTakahe, Fiordland National Park. Photo: Peter Moore
- ILLUSTRATIONSea to mountains, Westland National Park.
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- ILLUSTRATIONMt Taranaki from the Pouakai Range, Mt Egmont National Park. Photo: Mark Bellingham
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- ILLUSTRATIONRanunculus lyallii, Mt Cook National Park. Photo: J. H. Harding
- ILLUSTRATIONKakabeak, Urewera National Park.
- ILLUSTRATIONRangipo Desert, Tongariro National Park. Photo: Isobel Gabites
- ILLUSTRATIONEmerging mamaku frond, Whanganui National Park. Photo: Terry Fitzgibbon
- ILLUSTRATIONBealey Valley, Arthur's Pass National Park.
- ILLUSTRATIONLake Angelus, Nelson Lakes National Park. Photo: Gerard Hutching
- ILLUSTRATIONOpening of Whanganui National Park, 1986. Photo: Gerry McSweeney
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- CHAPTERGREENING THE GARDENS
- ILLUSTRATIONOur usual perception of botanic gardens is of a place to visit at the weekend to admire the plants. In fact they have...
- ILLUSTRATIONTimaru Botanic Gardens have an outstanding record of propagating threatened native plants, with more than 100 in thei...
- ILLUSTRATIONJust one plant of Raoul Island's Hebe breviracemosa survived after goats had destroyed much vegetation on the island....
- ILLUSTRATIONArmstrong's hebe is one of the most endangered New Zealand plants in the wild. With the help of botanic gardens this ...
- ILLUSTRATIONSome commentators have proposed New Zealand become a "Noah's Ark" for endangered species from other countries. Alread...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe ancient ginkgo tree is an example of a species that has been conserved for years in temple gardens. All photos Da...
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- CHAPTERTROPICAL RAINFORESTS a plan for action
- ILLUSTRATIONSlash and burn methods destroy invaluable rainforest and leave an infertile soil which is little suited to agricultur...
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- CHAPTERNEW ZEALAND'S ALPINE PLANTS INSIDE AND OUT
- ILLUSTRATIONAn alpine forget-me-not, Myosotis monroi.
- ILLUSTRATIONCrystals of oxalic acid
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- CHAPTERTBT OR N OT TBT?
- ILLUSTRATIONTBT paints have a dramatic effect on shellfish, as this photo (left) of shell thickening on a Pacific oyster shows.
- ILLUSTRATIONA less affected example is shown at right. The extremely toxic TBT has also been shown to accumulate as it moves up t...
- ILLUSTRATIONBureaucratic inaction means that this spring boat owners will be using poisonous TBT paints, thus polluting our coast...
- CHAPTERNEW ZEALAND ALPINE PLANTS INSIDE & OUT
- ILLUSTRATIONA sundew hair with its blob of sticky glue.
- ILLUSTRATIONA stomate on the leaf of a root-parasite eyebright, Euphrasia laingii.
- ILLUSTRATIONSpringtime growth in a southern heath, Leucopogon suavealens.
- ILLUSTRATIONCrystals of oxalic acid.
- ILLUSTRATIONNeedle-sharp raphide crystals from the leaf of an alpine willowherb, Epilobium vernicosum.
- ILLUSTRATIONA seamless join between a cushion plant, Phyllachne colensoi, and a vegetable sheep, Raoulia eximia.
- CHAPTERSmuth's milkwood
- ILLUSTRATIONSmith's milkwood, painted by Audrey Eagle.
- CHAPTERPua-o-te-reinga
- ILLUSTRATIONThismia rodwayi in flower. Photo: Jack Bedford.
- CHAPTERHoiho — the World’s Rarest Penguin
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- CHAPTERBULLETIN
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- ILLUSTRATIONJust north of Tasman's Rotoiti Reserve near Rotorua lies a corridor of unprotected private forest that links the rese...
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